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No.' 745,644. v n PATENTED Dnc. 1, 1903. v

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APPLICATION FILED MAY 8 1903.

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' l. n'yenzfafn Patented December 1, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK X. MUDD, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 745,644, dated December 1, 1903. Application tiled May 8| 1903. Serial No. 156,156. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern/.-

Be it known that I, FRANK X. MUDD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cuffs, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates particularly to reversible link-button ends and my primary object is to render reversible link-button ends of the type now in most common use-viz., those employing a tab at one end for connection with the cud-holder or with the button of the Wristband of the shirt. A

` The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure lrepresents a perspective view of my improved eu and a portion of a shirtsleeve with which it is connected; Fig. 2, a plan view of the cud; Fig. 3, a broken sectional view at the link-button, taken as indicated at line 3 of Fig. l; and Fig. 4, a broken sectional view at the Wristband-button, taken as indicated at line 4 of Fig. l.

A represents a cud having upper and lower edges a and lateral edges a. .The cuff is provided at its four corners with buttonholes a?. Projecting from one of the edges a of the cn are tabs or ears a3, located near the upper and lower edges of the cuff and having buttonholes e4 in alinement with the respective sets of lbuttonholes 0.2.

B represents a shirt-sleeve having a wrist-` band b equipped with a button b', by means of Which the cuff is secured at one end to the sleeve in the usual manner.

The 1ink-button h2 is` inserted at the free end of the cuff, extending Vthrough one buttonhole a2, then through the corresponding buttonhole a4, and then through the other corresponding bnttonhole a2.

Obviously it is a matter of indifference .which end of the cud is presented, since it is perfectly symmetrical with relation to a eentral transverse plane perpendicular to the cuff, as it appears in Fig. l.

The gist of the invention lies in the provision of the buttonholes adjacent to the tabs and in alinement with the buttonholes of the duplicate tabs and the buttonholes at the opl posite edge of the cuif.

While it is preferred to arrange both tabs at the same lateral edge of the cud, this arrangement may be departed from without depart-nre from the gist of the invention, so long as the upper and lower lateral tabs and two rows of buttonholes with three buttonholes in each row are retained.

What I regard as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A reversi-ble cud for link-buttons having a body portion provided 'near each of its four corners with a hutto'nhole, and two tabs fixedly attached to one end of said body portiony said tabs each having a buttonhole in longitndinal alinement with theadjacent hole in lthe body portion and adapted to be folded to he interposed between the meeting ends of the folded cud.

FRANK X. MUDD.

In presence of WALTER N. WINBEEG, W. B. DAvIEs. 

